(December 22, 2019 at 5:50 pm)Belacqua Wrote: This is a thread about the humanities.
It asks: because religion provided certain benefits in a certain time and a certain place, and now no longer does so, can the humanities play the same role instead? Or will the market take over completely? Or is there a third alternative?
I'm struggling to identify this group of people you are so concerned with. Who are they and what is they've actually lost and why does it need replacing?
Not everyone takes religion as seriously as you do, especially the religious.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.